fot – Old English noun declension

Noun: fot
Gender:

Nominative

Singular	fōt
Plural	fēt

Genitive

Singular	fōtes
Plural	fōta

Dative

Singular	fēt
Plural	fōtum

Accusative

Singular	fōt
Plural	fēt

Sample Sentences

Hefiġere iċ eom miċle þonne sē hāra stān
oþþe unlȳtel lēades clympre,
lēohtre iċ eom miċle þonne þēs lȳtla wyrm
þe hēr on flōde gǣð fōtum dryġe.
I am much heavier than the gray stone
or an un-little clump of lead,
I am much lighter than this little bug
that walks here on the water with dry feet
10th century, The Seafarer:
þonne hē be clifum cnossað. · Calde ġeþrungen
wǣron mīne fēt, · forste ġebunden,
caldum clommum, · þǣr þā ċeare sēofedun.
Hāt ymb heortan · hungor innan slāt
merewērġes mōd. · Þæt sē mon ne wāt
then it beats near cliffs. My feet were
squeezed by cold, bound by frost,
with cold fetters, when there we bemoaned
sorrows. Hot about heart, hunger within tore
a sea-weary mind. The man didn't know that,
Iċ dypte mīnne fōt on þæt wæter.
I dipped my foot into the water. (We tried to reach the village on foot (literally "on feet").) [Exeter Book, riddle 40]
late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
...⁊ sē weall wæs XX fōta þicce, ⁊ XL elna hēah...
...and the wall was twenty feet thick, and forty ells tall...
Þæt wæter is þrītiġ fōta dēop.
The water is thirty feet deep.
Hēo is fīf fōta lang and þrēora ynċa.
She is five foot, three inches tall.
Hīe wīcodon æt þæs beorges fēt. (They camped at the foot of the mountain.)

Nouns inflected like fot

fot,

Etymology

1. From Proto-West Germanic *fōt, from Proto-Germanic *fōts, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds.
2. The nominative and accusative plural fēt is the result of an umlaut: the first vowel in Proto-West Germanic plural *fōti shifted into a close-mid front rounded vowel in order to harmonize it with the last vowel. After speakers dropped the last vowel, the front rounded vowel became unrounded, although some dialects (largely the Anglian ones) retained the rounded vowel longer than West Saxon did.
3. Cognates
4. Germanic cognates include Old Frisian fōt, Old Saxon fōt (Dutch voet), Old High German fuoȥ (German Fuß), Old Norse fótr (Danish fod, Swedish fot), Gothic 𐍆𐍉𐍄𐌿𐍃 (fōtus). The Proto-Indo-European root was also the source of Sanskrit पद् (pád), Ancient Greek πούς (poús) (genitive ποδός (podós)); Doric πῶς (pôs), Latin pēs (genitive pedis). See: Dutch Nouns 'voet', German Nouns 'Fuß', Old Norse Nouns 'fótr', Danish Nouns 'fod', Swedish Nouns 'fot', Gothic Nouns '𐍆𐍉𐍄𐌿𐍃', Ancient Greek Nouns 'πούς', Latin Nouns 'pēs'.